The most striking feature of the new interim government of Romania, created amid the chaos of the bloody uprising last week, is that many of its leaders are the reform-minded sons of once-influential Communists who served the executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, according to U.S. and academic specialists. Their program appears to be to make Romania into a West European-style social democracy.

Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze spent Saturday meeting with Romania's new leaders and afterward said that he promised them the Soviet Union's "political, material and moral support." He said that talks on economic cooperation will begin "in the near future" and promised Romania increased shipments of oil and natural gas to help its 23 million citizens get through the winter with homes heated to near-normal levels for the first time in years.

Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze spent Saturday meeting with Romania's new leaders and afterward said that he promised them the Soviet Union's "political, material and moral support." He said that talks on economic cooperation will begin "in the near future" and promised Romania increased shipments of oil and natural gas to help its 23 million citizens get through the winter with homes heated to near-normal levels for the first time in years.

The most striking feature of the new interim government of Romania, created amid the chaos of the bloody uprising last week, is that many of its leaders are the reform-minded sons of once-influential Communists who served the executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, according to U.S. and academic specialists. Their program appears to be to make Romania into a West European-style social democracy.